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Another eyewitness has narrated his experience during the tanker explosion that occurred on Otedola bridge along Lagos-Ibadan expresway on Thursday evening. Somto Cody Akanegbu corroborated the previous eyewitness story that the accident was caused by a commercial bus driver and not the tanker driver. Read here He also narrated how a man who was recording the accident scene after the first blast, was nowhere to be found thereafter. Somto, who is a resident of Otedola / Omole Estate phase 2 which is situated around the accident scene, accused the estate management of locking their entrance gate, preventing people from running into the estate for safety.

Nine persons and over 54 vehicles were burnt beyond recognition in the petrol tanker explosion that occured at Otedola bridge in Lagos yesterday, 28th of June 2018. An eyewitness, Otunbakush took to Twitter to recount his experience. According to him, the accident was caused by a commercial driver who stopped to drop off a passenger at a place that wasn't a designated bus stop. After dropping the passenger, he quickly entered the fast lane without looking at his side, and the fuel tanker, which was approaching the commercial bus, quickly stepped on his brakes to avoid hitting the bus. This caused the tanker to hit the road partition and flip over. Otunbakush also stated that the deaths could have been avoidable as those involved had time to save themselves but instead chose to save their vehicles with attempts to reverse, while others made videos of the incident while still seated in their vehicles. More of his Tweets below...

During yesterday's sermon, Pastor Paul Adefarasin of 'House on the Rock' cathedral made out time to speak on the incessant bloodshed in the middle belt especially the recent one at Plateau State. In his words, 'I'm very disturbed this morning and I normally do not like to over comment, at best only advise when we have significant crisis that violates the sanctity of human life. I'm sure you;ve read in the news and heard of the mayhem in the middle belt that has now become common place everyday and the security architecture, the executive and legislature seem to be impotent to deal with the matter or we must assume that they are complacent'. He went on to say that, 'and everything within our power we will do, not to antagonise the government but to protect the sancitity of human lives because todday it is the middle belt, tomorrow it could be Southern Nigeria and our freedom may no longer be with us'.